This petition is created on behalf of all dogs locked into the "puppy mills" in Europe, dogs that can not speak for their rights and be heard, except by those who cause their pain. These dogs need us to speak for them and to save them from this life and death so heinous, cruel and unfair.

We, the undersigned, implore you to take into consideration the adoption of a criminal law which definitely prohibited "puppy mills" in Europe and impose tougher sanctions to those who break this law. We implore you to support us to stop this unnecessary and cruel suffering in Europe and stop this excessive and uncontrolled breeding of dogs.

All European countries have legal and illegal "puppy mills", but it is in Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic were are the largest puppy mills in Europe; the farms that supply the Spanish market, among many others. In most of these farms, both in Eastern Europe and the rest of the continent, the dogs live in subhuman and precarious conditions, dying of cold, sunstroke, hunger, thirst, diseases of all types and constant abuse. Some even eat parts of his own body to survive.

The female dogs have litter after litter enclosed in tiny cages and sometimes several dogs survive together in the same cage. When they no longer hold for breeding, or are simply too old, they kill them. The puppies are separated from their mothers after 20 days and are carried on large trucks with false papers and veterinary primers.

Once they cross the border and come to Spain, more than half of these puppies are dead from disease, malnutrition, cold or fear itself. The surviving puppies are purchased by authorized stores, sold through the Internet and at veterinary clinics. Nobody knows the origin of these puppies that are cruelly exposed in petshop showcases, as if they were toys, but it is from these terrible places, from these atrocious "puppy mills", where they come from.

Another major problem are the diseases with which they arrive. These puppies are usually sick with parvovirus, a disease that has a high rate of death in puppies, and don't have the rabies vaccine. Also, growing up in inhuman conditions and with no hygiene at all, the fungal they have can be transmitted to the skin of humans. They do not pass the needed revisions for different races, so most have congenital blindness, hip displaxia, deafness, kidney problems, respiratory problems and an endless etc. The stress experienced by mothers during pregnancy is transmitted to the puppies, creating a potential problem behavior.

Since 2012, Los Angeles, and 30 other US cities, prohibit the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits from breeders, to avoid the deaths of thousands of unsold animals that are euthanized each year in those places.

Since 2011, Toronto (Canada) approved a measure to prohibit retailers "including any person or business that sells more than 10 dogs each year" from obtaining animals from any source except shelters or rescue groups, with the aim of shutting down sales of dogs and cats raised in "puppy or cat mills".

Why can not Europe create a similar law? Why can we not definitively resolve the suffering of innocent beigns and get over with this cruelty? How is that in countries like the United States or Canada is possible to create this law and in Europe we are unable to do so because there are limitations, as one of your representatives said? What limitations? Why don't you, the representatives of the European Union, are able to change the laws? If not you, who will?

We are aware that on 28 October this year, 2013, you will attend an European conference for the "welfare of dogs and cats" and we strongly urge you to bring with you this request and all our signatures. Nothing is impossible and we are confident that together we can change the animal suffering and the excessive breeding dogs, avoiding its subsequent abandonment.

We trust you.

Thank you,

The undersigned

Letter to

World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)Bernard Vallat

Director, Eurogroup for AnimalsReineke Hameleers

Eurogroup for AnimalsEurogroup for Animals

and 9 others

Director General de Sanidad de la Producción AgrariaValentín Almansa de Lara

Secretaría de Estado de Asuntos ExterioresSecretaría de Estado de Asuntos Exteriores

This petition is created on behalf of all dogs locked into the "puppy mills" in Europe, dogs can not speak for their rights and be heard, except by those who cause their pain. These dogs need us to speak for them and to save them from this life and death so heinous, cruel and unfair.

We, the undersigned, implore you to take into consideration the adoption of a criminal law which definitely prohibited "puppy mills" in Europe and impose tougher sanctions to those who break this law. We implore you to support us to stop this unnecessary and cruel suffering in Europe and stop this excessive and uncontrolled breeding of dogs.

All European countries have legal and illegal "puppy mills", but it is in Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic were are the largest puppy mills in Europe; the farms that supply the Spanish market, among many others. In most of these farms, both in Eastern Europe and the rest of the continent, the dogs live in subhuman and precarious conditions, dying of cold, sunstroke, hunger, thirst, diseases of all types and constant abuse. Some even eat parts of his own body to survive.

The female dogs have litter after litter enclosed in tiny cages and sometimes several dogs survive together in the same cage. When they no longer hold for breeding, or are simply too old, they kill them. The puppies are separated from their mothers after 20 days and are carried on large trucks with false papers and veterinary primers.

Once they cross the border and come to Spain, more than half of these puppies are dead from disease, malnutrition, cold or fear itself. The surviving puppies are purchased by authorized stores, sold through the Internet and at veterinary clinics. Nobody knows the origin of these puppies that are cruelly exposed in petshop showcases, as if they were toys, but it is from these terrible places, from these atrocious "puppy mills", where they come from.

Another major problem are the diseases with which they arrive. These puppies are usually sick with parvovirus, a disease that has a high rate of death in puppies, and don't have the rabies vaccine. Also, growing up in inhuman conditions and with no hygiene at all, the fungal they have can be transmitted to the skin of humans. They do not pass the needed revisions for different races, so most have congenital blindness, hip displaxia, deafness, kidney problems, respiratory problems and an endless etc. The stress experienced by mothers during pregnancy is transmitted to the puppies, creating a potential problem behavior.

Since 2012, Los Angeles, and 30 other US cities, prohibit the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits from breeders, to avoid the deaths of thousands of unsold animals that are euthanized each year in those places.

Since 2011, Toronto (Canada) has approved a measure to prohibit retailers "including any person or business that sells more than 10 dogs each year" from obtaining animals from any source except shelters or rescue groups, with the aim of shutting down sales of dogs and cats raised in "puppy or cat mills".

Why can not Europe create a similar law? Why can we not definitively resolve the suffering of innocent beigns and get over with this cruelty? How is that in countries like the United States or Canada is possible to create this law and in Europe we are unable to do so because there are limitations, as one of your representatives said? What limitations? Why don't you, the representatives of the European Union, are able to change the laws? If not you, who will?

We are aware that on 28 October this year, 2013, you will attend an European conference for the "welfare of dogs and cats" and we strongly urge you to bring with you this request and all our signatures. Nothing is impossible and we are confident that together we can change the animal suffering and the excessive breeding dogs, avoiding its subsequent abandonment.